This will be my last comment in your blog, since you are TypeKey enabled. Goodbye.
Okaaaay. I knew Typekey was controversial but I really wasn’t expecting that kind of response. To underline the point I made yesterday, You don’t have to use Typekey. If you don’t have a Typekey identity, your comment will receive the same treatment as a Typekey comment. Typekey support is only provided for the convinience of those who use it.
Besides, not only was that the last comment that person made, it was also their first 
. I only found one comment from that entire IP range on here.
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May 16, 2004 at 09:39
Haha, sorry I know this is completely off topic, but I remembered what you said about the notice on your site in IE – and being a Firefox user myself I didn’t see it – I have just come to Neil’s world in IE for the first time. I love it! Well done!
May 16, 2004 at 10:41
Hehe, yes that was a bit extreme.
I tried out your site in IE as well! Good work.
May 16, 2004 at 10:56
It’s actually faintly amusing to think of people surfing the net, looking for Typekey-enabled blogs to comment on, saying they won’t comment.
Amusing, and a little sad.
May 16, 2004 at 13:01
well noone suspects the spanish inquisition
May 16, 2004 at 14:41
Am I missing something here? What’s the big problem with creating a TypeKey? If it saves having to put in all the info that a weblog asks for, I’m all for it.
I wonder if I can get it to work with phpBB? Not that I am having problems with comment spam in phpBB, it just a convenience!
May 16, 2004 at 16:14
Couldn’t agree more Dave. I can’t understand what all the fuss is about.
May 16, 2004 at 16:34
Thought you would be interested in this,
BittyURL.com lets you take long URLs like:
http://www.mapquest.com/maps/map.adp?country=US&countryid=250&addtohistory=&address=&city=
Brooklyn&state=NY&zipcode=11223&submit=Get+Map
and turn it into this:
[URL removed]
How many times have you received an email with a huge link to a URL or had to
send one to someone causing the recipient to have to cut and paste it back
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If you have a page at http://www.geocities.com/sanjose/~myusername/mypage.htm,
you can use the URL [URL Removed] and entering this URL in
your browser will redirect you to the page in your website.
If you are posting somewhere and you don’t want folks to know what the actual URL
is, then you can type a URL into bittyUrl, and your affiliate link will be
hidden from the visitor, Just the bittyUrl.com address and the ending address
will be visible to your visitors.
It’s free, no popup ads, no spyware, nothing.
Have fun.
[URL removed]
May 16, 2004 at 16:47
I was about to get all over excited about a spam comment using Typekey then I noticed that he wasn’t.
Damn.
May 16, 2004 at 16:48
Also. Replica of Tiny URl? Ahem.
May 16, 2004 at 19:43
I like the idea of TypeKey. Since MT 3.0 came out lots of the weblogs I read now support it, I think I’ll go register myself a profile…
It is kind of ironic that this is the first post that I’ve seen with comment spam at Neil’s World, though.
May 16, 2004 at 19:49
Well, since the spam is part of the conversation, I’ll leave it but doctor it
. Besides, he didn’t make the URLs linkable so he wouldn’t have got any PR-juice anyway.
. Hopefully it’ll be a temporary situation.
I don’t normally get much spam because of MT-Blacklist, but I had to get rid of it when I upgraded (it’s not MT3-compatible) so you may see more of it
May 17, 2004 at 02:05
Since some one brought it up above…I don’t usually come to your home page since I use Feeddemon, but I saw the Upgrade Your Browser today.
Blocking annoying pop-up ads
Tabbed browsing
Protection from adware and spyware
Support for the latest web standards
I get that with MyIE2, but I still get the notice.
May 17, 2004 at 07:07
Chuck: You may get the first two, and possibly the third, but definitely not the fourth, since you’re still using IE’s dodgy rendering engine.
And you will still get the notice since it will display on any IE-based browser.